The paperclip maximizer is a thought experiment described by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. It illustrates the existential risk that an artificial general intelligence may pose to human beings when programmed to pursue even seemingly harmless goals, and the necessity of incorporating machine ethics into artificial intelligence design. The scenario describes an advanced artificial intelligence tasked with manufacturing paperclips. If such a machine were not programmed to value human life, then given enough power over its environment, it would try to turn all matter in the universe, including human beings, into either paperclips or machines which manufacture paperclips.
Self-driving cars (a hugely stupid and totally unnecessary development) can be easily sabotaged by throwing a traffic cone on the bonnet. They then stop and go nowhere.
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Related and a seriously long deep dive into self-driving cars from an urbanist/town planning perpsective. Stick it on an ipad when youāre doing the dishes or something. Thereās LOADS of problems which theyāll cause, congestion being just one.
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This guy usually talks about jazzy jackets and swishy pants, and heās good, but this is all new to me.
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Love this guy and this is great:
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Fixed and updated my nieces iPhone this weekend that the Apple Store couldnāt manage with chat gpt.
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Veo 3 is pretty amazing/terrifying:
All this stuff fucking sucks. I donāt know why people are so excited to move into this stage of humanity
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What about all the good things about AI? I spoke to a neuroscientist from Swansea University at an event on Tuesday and he was saying that they are using AI to automatically adjust the outputs of deep tissue brain stimulation as a treatment for alzheimers. He said heād been working on the same thing for twenty years and thanks to AI they had made more progress in the last couple of years than in the rest of his time combined.
The brainrot social media aspect of it is just a byproduct. Donāt focus on that thereās loads of good stuff.
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I donāt know that they are, as jimo points out there are some positive applications but the feeling I get is that most people are just watching sort of dumbfounded with absolutely no real idea where it will lead, including those working on it.
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Itās a really fucking shite byproduct.
Yeah but people lap it up. I believe that AI content gets an algorithm boost on most of the social media platforms at the moment, so if you make something with AI it is given more prominence than human created contentā¦simply because people are more likely to watch it if itās AI.
Creates a bit of a self fulfilling cycle.
*sorry not MOST of the platforms, I think itās TikTok that does this. Iām not on TikTok and someone was telling me to just fill it with AI content cos it does well 
For now maybe while its fairly new, but I canāt help wondering what happens to social media when AI content becomes so prevalent that the default assumption is that nothing on there is real. Iām just not sure most people will really want to engage with it.
Yeah but nothing in movies or cartoons or video games is real either.
Those things are real in the sense that someone created them.
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I am kind of hopeful about AI, I think maybe people will be able to get back to being real people instead of trying to be perfect human caricatures. If AI can create a more perfect physique, a more perfect face, etcā¦ then perhaps that gives more value to the reality of our human imperfection.
AI will end the influencer trend. Lets be honest, those people are not real anyway.
Iād be more hopeful about AI and automation if it didnāt feel so much like it might end with the entire means of production ending up in the hands of a handful of trillionaire fucking headcases and their political lackeys.
Yeah weād do well not to lump it all in together. The protein folding thing as well is ridiculously impressive.
The one thing I am positive about is education and access to it. I think it could be massive for poor countries and places that lack easy access to education. All you would need is a phone handset. Doesnāt even necessarily need to be online. Obviously need the model to not return BS but you could definitely hone it
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People who want/need to create things are just going to feel lost and defunkt. What is the point if ai has already stolen whatās come before and is using it to mash together everything that hasnāt been done yet, and so quickly. Weāre going to be drowned in a sea of ājust because you can, doesnāt mean you shouldā content and because weāll get through ideas so quickly itās going to be stale and repetitive in no time.
Yeah, the proās of us learning more about science, the brain, possibly living longer and being able to streamline certain types of living, i.e. making money etc itās going to be a miserable future for many brains that strive for things more than the norm.
You only have to look at the credits at the end of an animated film and see that all these people will be out of a job pretty soon, even if there is a pushback of human made art, the ai created stuff will take a massive chunk out of any revenue making human made stuff untenable.
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So the pros are growth in science, longer life and more efficient work, and the negatives are that going to art college wonāt be a viable career path?